Retail Banking Job Trends

Retail Banking
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail Banking in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Retail Banking over the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 647 552 654
Rank change year-on-year -95 +102 -64
Permanent jobs citing Retail Banking 70 111 228
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.078% 0.26% 0.24%
As % of the General category 0.16% 0.35% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 49 45 180
10th Percentile - £25,313 £57,350
25th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £83,577 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.70% +7.84% +10.71%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £100,000 - £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £84,288 £67,500
% change year-on-year +0.84% +24.87% +3.85%

All General Skills
UK

Retail Banking falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring general skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 44,118 31,514 58,140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 49.06% 72.58% 60.30%
Number of salaries quoted 24,747 15,713 39,506
10th Percentile £29,250 £28,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,750 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £77,250 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £105,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%

Retail Banking
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Retail Banking relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Retail Banking job vacancy trend in the UK

Retail Banking
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Retail Banking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Retail Banking

Retail Banking
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Retail Banking over the 6 months to 13 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Retail Banking in the UK

Retail Banking
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Retail Banking within the UK over the 6 months to 13 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -66 69 £83,750 +0.21% 21
London -38 57 £78,000 +4.00% 15
UK excluding London -88 12 £85,000 +0.84% 12
North West +10 11 £85,000 - 3
North of England -23 11 £85,000 +231.71% 5
Work from Home +7 3 £75,000 +15.38% 10
Scotland -2 1 £90,000 - 6

Retail Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (4.29%) Confluence
1 3 (4.29%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.29%) FLEXCUBE
1 3 (4.29%) Misys Opics
1 3 (4.29%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.43%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 36 (51.43%) AWS
2 29 (41.43%) Azure
3 12 (17.14%) GCP
4 8 (11.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 8 (11.43%) Amazon S3
5 4 (5.71%) GitHub
6 3 (4.29%) AWS Step Functions
6 3 (4.29%) PaaS
7 2 (2.86%) Figma
7 2 (2.86%) Google Analytics
8 1 (1.43%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (1.43%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.43%) SaaS
8 1 (1.43%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (14.29%) Cisco Firepower
1 10 (14.29%) Firewall
1 10 (14.29%) LAN
1 10 (14.29%) VPN
1 10 (14.29%) WAN
2 8 (11.43%) BGP
2 8 (11.43%) Cisco ISE
2 8 (11.43%) OSPF
2 8 (11.43%) SD-WAN
2 8 (11.43%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (15.71%) Data Lake
1 11 (15.71%) Metadata
2 3 (4.29%) Data Mart
2 3 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (4.29%) Oracle BI EE
2 3 (4.29%) Oracle ODI
2 3 (4.29%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (2.86%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 8 (11.43%) Git
2 3 (4.29%) JIRA
3 1 (1.43%) GitLab
3 1 (1.43%) JUnit
General
1 50 (71.43%) Banking
2 32 (45.71%) Finance
3 16 (22.86%) Social Skills
4 14 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (17.14%) Retail
6 11 (15.71%) Financial Institution
6 11 (15.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.43%) Advertising
7 1 (1.43%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.43%) Law
7 1 (1.43%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (44.29%) Senior
2 16 (22.86%) Developer
3 15 (21.43%) AWS Engineer
4 12 (17.14%) AWS Developer
4 12 (17.14%) Azure Developer
4 12 (17.14%) Cloud Developer
5 11 (15.71%) Architect
5 11 (15.71%) Auditor
5 11 (15.71%) Data Architect
5 11 (15.71%) IT Auditor
5 11 (15.71%) Senior Auditor
5 11 (15.71%) Senior IT Auditor
6 10 (14.29%) Network Engineer
6 10 (14.29%) Senior Developer
7 8 (11.43%) Python Engineer
8 6 (8.57%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (8.57%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (8.57%) Platform Manager
8 6 (8.57%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 4 (5.71%) Digital Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.43%) 802.1X
2 3 (4.29%) .NET
3 2 (2.86%) Spring
3 2 (2.86%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.43%) Kafka
4 1 (1.43%) OAuth
4 1 (1.43%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.43%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 9 (12.86%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.29%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (4.29%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.86%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.43%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (37.14%) Agile
2 22 (31.43%) DevOps
3 16 (22.86%) Analytics
3 16 (22.86%) CI/CD
4 15 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 14 (20.00%) Data Management
5 14 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 14 (20.00%) Product Management
6 12 (17.14%) Asset Management
6 12 (17.14%) Business Development
6 12 (17.14%) Digital Banking
6 12 (17.14%) Platform Engineering
6 12 (17.14%) Risk Management
6 12 (17.14%) Wealth Management
7 11 (15.71%) Data Strategy
7 11 (15.71%) Innovative Thinking
7 11 (15.71%) Internal Audit
7 11 (15.71%) Logical Data Model
7 11 (15.71%) Metadata Management
7 11 (15.71%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 8 (11.43%) Python
2 3 (4.29%) C#
2 3 (4.29%) Java
2 3 (4.29%) PL/SQL
2 3 (4.29%) SQL
3 1 (1.43%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 11 (15.71%) AWS Certification
1 11 (15.71%) Azure Certification
2 8 (11.43%) CCNP
2 8 (11.43%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.43%) APMG
3 1 (1.43%) Degree
3 1 (1.43%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.43%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.29%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.86%) QA
3 1 (1.43%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 8 (11.43%) Check_MK
2 7 (10.00%) Terraform
3 1 (1.43%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (18.57%) Microsoft
2 10 (14.29%) Cisco
2 10 (14.29%) Palo Alto
3 8 (11.43%) SolarWinds
4 3 (4.29%) Oracle
5 2 (2.86%) Amplitude
5 2 (2.86%) Google
6 1 (1.43%) Databricks
6 1 (1.43%) Workday